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© 2016 IBM Corporation
Building Cognitive applications with Watson services on IBM BluemixBert Waltniel – IBM Cloud
IBM BusinessConnectA New Era of Thinking
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What is Bluemix?
Bluemix is also built on 3 key open compute technologies: Cloud Foundry, Docker, and OpenStack.
Your Own Hosted Apps / Services
Platform Deployment Options to meet Workload Requirements
BluemixPublic
BluemixDedicated
BluemixLocal*
Powered by IBM SoftLayer In Your Data Center
Flexible Compute Options to Run Apps / Services
Instant Runtimes Containers Virtual Machines
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DevOpsTooling
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Integration & API Mgmt
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Catalog of Services that Extend Apps’ Functionality
Web Data Mobile AnalyticsCognitive IoT Security Yours
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It extends each of these with a growing number of services, robust DevOps tooling, integrationcapabilities, and a seamless developer experience.
2,000+
112,000+
Bluemix in numbers
New users per day
Cloud Foundry deploymentLargest
Application starts per month
3
1B+ API calls per day
Hybrid Cloud
Private Cloud
Off-premise cloud
OAuth
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Reusable services form the basis for all Watson cognitive solutions
Advisors
Developers CloudSpecialties
Models
Content
ToolingAssemble
TrainDeploy
Admin
Data Services IngestExtract AnnotateCurate
Design
Engagement Discovery
Decision Policy
Cross Industry Editions
Oncology Wealth Mgmt.
Intelligence Cooking
Target Industry Editions Powered by Watson OfferingsApp Store
Healthcare
Financial Svc.
Travel...Call Center
User Modeling
Research...Core Offerings Watson Analytics Watson Explorer
Industry Aligned Market Aligned
Visualize
Cognitive Services (APIs)
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Benefits of Watson on the Cloud Infrastructure
Reach Outexpertise by elevating the
consistency and objectivity of decision making across an
organization.
Enhancethe cognitive process of
professionals to strengthen decision making in the
moment
Acceleratedevelopment of expertise in
others by capturing the expertise of top performers
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Watson on Bluemix
Reason
Listening
Vision
Speech
Learning
Watson is creating a new partnership between people and computers that enhances, scales and accelerates human expertise
IBM Watson services available on Bluemix are the building blocks for developers to create the next generation of cognitive applications to transform the way businesses engage with their customers, discover, innovate and make decisions
…build with Watson
BuildCognitiveApplicationswithIBMWatsonWatson is creating a new partnership between people and computers that enhances, scales and accelerates human expertise.
IBM Watson services available on Bluemix are building blocks for developers to create the next generation of cognitive applications to transform the way businesses engage with their customers, discover, innovate and make decisions.
Build with WatsonConcept Expansion
Language Translation
Message Resonance
Personality Insights
Relationship Extraction
Speech to Text
Text to speech
Tradeoff Analytics
Visualization Rending
Visual Recognition
Concept Insights
AlchemyAPI
AlchemyAPI's text analytics and computer vision capabilities now part of Watson Developer Cloud and available on Bluemix
Dialog
09:00 Welcome Coffee
09:30 Introduction to IBM Bluemix
10:30 Demonstration: deploy an application
11:00 Hands-on and exercices in small teams• Connect an "Internet of Things" device to Bluemix
12:30 Sandwich Lunch
13:30 Hands-on and exercices in small teams• Real-time analytics from the IOT device• Gathering accelerometer data• Applying machine learning• Streaming data and recognising patterns
16:00 End
Brussels, Tuesday June 14, 9am
Location
IBM Client Centeravenue du Bourget/ Bourgetlaan, 421130 BRUSSELS
When
Brussels, Tuesday June 14
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AlchemyAPI
An AlchemyAPI service that analyzes your unstructured text and image content
AlchemyAPI offers a set of three services that enable businesses and developers to build cognitive applications that understand the content and context within text and images. For instance, using AlchemyAPI, developers can perform tasks such as extracting the people, places, companies, and other entities mentioned in a news article or analyze an image to understand the contents of the photo.
Author: IBM
Category: Watson
Status: Production Ready
Free Plan: Yes
Regions: US UK AU
http://www.alchemyapi.com/api4
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Concept Insights
Explore the concepts behind your input, identifying associations beyond traditional text matching.
The Concept Insights service links documents that you provide with a pre-existing graph of concepts based on Wikipedia (e.g. 'The New York Times', 'Machine learning', etc.). Two types of links are identified: explicit links when a document directly mentions a concept, and implicit links which connect your documents to relevant concepts that are not directly mentioned in them. Users of this service can also search for documents that are relevant to a concept or collection of concepts by exploring the explicit and implicit links.
Author: IBM
Category: Watson
Status: Production Ready
Free Plan: No
Regions: US UK AU
https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/concept-insights.html 26
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Dialog
Enable your application to use natural language to converse with users
The IBM Watson Dialog Service allows a developer to design the way an application interacts with an end user through a conversational interface. The Dialog service enables applications to use natural language to automatically respond to user questions, cross-sell and up-sell, walk users through processes or applications, or even hand-hold users through difficult tasks. The Dialog service can track and store user profile information to learn more about end users, guide them through processes based on their unique situation, or pass their information to a back-end system to help them take action and get the help they need.
Author: IBM
Category: Watson
Status: Production Ready
Free Plan: No
Regions: US UK AU
https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/dialog.html35
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Document Conversion
Converts a HTML, PDF, or Microsoft Word™ document into a normalized HTML, plain text, or a set of JSON-formatted Answer units.
The IBM Watson™ Document conversion service converts a single HTML, PDF, or Microsoft Word™ document into a normalized HTML, plain text, or a set of JSON-formatted Answer units that can be used with other Watson services.
Author: IBM
Category: Watson
Status: Production Ready
Free Plan: No
Regions: US UK AU
https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/document-conversion.html 37
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Language Translation
Translate text from one language to another for specific domains.
Want to dynamically translate news, patents, or conversational documents? Instantly publish content in multiple languages? Or allow your French-speaking staff to instantly send emails in English? You can with Watson Language Translation! Connect the Watson service to your code, and you can leverage the power of our service in the following domains / language pairs:
Author: IBM Watson
Category: Watson
Status: Production Ready
Free Plan: No
Regions: US UK AU
https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/language-translation.html 66
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Natural Language Classifier
Natural Language Classifier performs natural language classification on question texts. A user would be able to train their data and the predict the appropriate class for a input question.The Natural Language Classifier service applies cognitive computing techniques to return the best matching classes for a sentence or phrase. For example, you submit a question and the service returns keys to the best matching answers or next actions for your application. You create a classifier instance by providing a set of representative strings and a set of one or more correct classes for each training. After training, the new classifier can accept new questions or phrases and return the top matches with a probability value for each match.
Author: IBM
Category: Watson
Status: Production Ready
Free Plan: No
Regions: US UK AU
https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/nl-classifier.html85
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Personality Insights
The Watson Personality Insights derives insights from transactional and social media data to identify psychological traits
Watson Personality Insights: Personality Insights derives insights from transactional and social media data to identify psychological traits which determine purchase decisions, intent and behavioral traits; utilized to improve conversion rates.
Author: IBM
Category: Watson
Status: Production Ready
Free Plan: No
Regions: US UK AU
https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/personality-insights.html 89
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Relationship Extraction
Intelligently finds relationships between sentences components (nouns, verbs, subjects, objects, etc.)
Parses sentences into their various components and detects relationships between the components. It can process new terms (like people's names in a news feed) it has never analyzed before through contextual analysis. Sentence components include parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, conjunction, etc.) and functions (subjects, objects, predicates, etc.). The service maps the relationships between the components so that users or analytics engines can more easily understand the meaning of individual sentences and documents.
Author: IBM
Category: Watson
Status: Beta
Free Plan: Yes
Regions: US UK AU
https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/relationship-extraction.html 101
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Retrieve and Rank
Add machine learning enhanced search capabilities to your application
The IBM Watson Retrieve and Rank service helps users find the most relevant information for their query by using a combination of search and machine learning algorithms to detect "signals" in the data. Built on top of Apache Solr, developers load their data into the service, train a machine learning model based on known relevant results, then leverage this model to provide improved results to their end users based on their question or query.
Author: IBM
Category: Watson
Status: Production Ready
Free Plan: No
Regions: US UK AU
https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/retrieve-rank.html102
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Speech To Text
Low-latency, streaming transcription
The Speech to Text service converts the human voice into the written word. It can be used anywhere there is a need to bridge the gap between the spoken word and their written form, including voice control of embedded systems, transcription of meetings and conference calls, and dictation of email and notes. This easy-to-use service uses machine intelligence to combine information about grammar and language structure with knowledge of the composition of the audio signal to generate an accurate transcription. The following languages and features are currently available:
Author: IBM
Category: Watson
Status: Production Ready
Free Plan: No
Regions: US UK AU
https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/speech-to-text.html113
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Text to Speech
Synthesizes natural-sounding speech from text.
The Text to Speech service processes text and natural language to generate synthesized audio output complete with appropriate cadence and intonation. It is available in several voices:
Author: IBM
Category: Watson
Status: Production Ready
Free Plan: No
Regions: US UK AU
https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/text-to-speech.html117
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Tone Analyzer
Tone Analyzer uses linguistic analysis to detect three types of tones from communications: emotion, social, and language. This insight can then be used to drive high impact communications.People show various tones, such as joy, sadness, anger, and agreeableness, in daily communications. Such tones can impact the effectiveness of communication in different contexts. Tone Analyzer leverages cognitive linguistic analysis to identify a variety of tones at both the sentence and document level. This insight can then used to refine and improve communications. It detects three types of tones, including emotion (anger, disgust, fear, joy and sadness), social propensities (openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and emotional range), and language styles (analytical, confident and tentative) from text.
Author: IBM
Category: Watson
Status: Beta
Free Plan: Yes
Regions: US UK AU
http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/tone-analyzer.html119
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Tradeoff Analytics
Helps make better choices under multiple conflicting goals. Combines smart visualization and recommendations for tradeoff exploration
Tradeoff Analytics helps people make better choices while taking into account multiple, often conflicting, goals that matter when making that choice. The service can be used to help make complex decisions like what mortgage to take, and also for helping with more everyday ones like which laptop to purchase. Tradeoff Analytics uses Pareto filtering techniques in order to identify the optimal alternatives across multiple criteria. It then uses various analytical and visual approaches to help the decision maker explore the tradeoffs within the optimal set of alternatives. This insures that the chosen option will adhere to the goals and criteria that matter for the decision maker.
Author: IBM
Category: Watson
Status: Production Ready
Free Plan: No
Regions: US UK AU
https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/tradeoff-analytics.html 121
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Visual Insights
Visual Insights enhances the customer view by analyzing photos and video to extract consumer insights related to interests, activities, hobbies, life events, and products.
Visual Insights enhances the customer view by analyzing photos and video to extract consumer insights related to interests, activities, hobbies, life events, and products.
Author: IBM
Category: Watson
Status: Experimental
Free Plan: Yes
Regions: US UK AU
https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/visual-insights.html127
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Visual Recognition
Analyzes the visual content of images and videos to understand their content without requiring a textual description
The Visual Recognition service enables you to analyze the visual appearance of images or video frames to understand what is happening in a scene. Using machine learning technology, semantic classifiers recognize many visual entities, such as settings, objects, and events. The service applies these pre-learned models to imagery that you have uploaded to the service and returns a score for each image for each model, indicating the likelihood of that visual element being present in the image.
Author: IBM
Category: Watson
Status: Beta
Free Plan: Yes
Regions: US UK AU
https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/visual-recognition.html 128